David Philip Miller is a social historian of science. He is an associate professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales, Australia. The history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science. ... The University of New South Wales or UNSW is a university situated in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...
Born in Yorkshire, he studied chemistry and nuclear physics as well as science and technology policy for a BSc (Hons) at Manchester University and received his MA and PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the University of New South Wales since 1981. Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... University of Manchester Motto: Cognitio Sapientia Hvmanitas Knowledge, wisdom, humanity. ... This article is about the private university in Philadelphia. ...
Miller's published works include Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century 'Water Controversy' (Ashgate, 2004, ISBN 0-7546-3177-X) and Visions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and Representations of Nature (edited with Peter Hanns Reill), (Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-521-48303-4).